The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-07-23
Supreme Ignorance.

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Supreme Ignorance.
CLEVELAND knows that he ought
to be insulted by every member of
the G. A. r. and thinks therefore
he would be insulted, if he attended
the encampment atSt. Louis Vim
ton Record.
The above is from the mighty
pen of A. Barleon, and represents
the feeling of the average 4x7 Re-
publican Statesman.
Barleon, poor fellow, is sorely af-
flicted with hydrocephalus, and is
scarcely responsible, but as the
idea is not supposed to be original
it is important for the reason that
it represents the ideas of a numer-
Gus host of those who figured as
bounty-jumpers and shirks during
the war of the rebellion.
"Cleveland ought to be insulted
by every member of the G.. A. r."
Let us ask why? Is it because he
refused his sanction to the boldest
scheme of thievery ever projected
against the public Treasury? We
refer to the bill denounced by the
G. A. r. in it's National Encamp-
ment last year, viz: the Bill known
as the Service Pension Bill.
Let us look at this in a business
way for a few minutes. Barleon,
suppose you had hired man to
work for you twenty-five years ago,
for an agreed price per month,
which price had been paid for the
whole time of service, and that
now-twenty years after the SER
vice rendered-he should return
and say to you, II was once in your
service, I did for you the work as
signed me and more; I received
the agreed value of my services,
but now after twenty years of such
thought as 1 have been able to give
the matter, I feel that my services
was worth more than the price
paid, and therefore, although 1 was
in no way injured while in your
employ, I demand that you pay me
a monthly salary for the rest of my
natural life" What answer would
you make to such q demand
Would you not at once make an
duplication of your No. 10 brogan ?
If you did not it would be an un-
pardonable exhibition of cOwardice
on your part, and yet there is as
much sense and honesty in the
above as in the demand for "Ser.
vice Pensions," and yet the Repu5.
lican politicians are all bowling
because the government refuses to
grant that which any business man
would be considered a fool fol
granting. ~.
Now if the Presidents veto ol
this magnificent proposition te
quarter an army of able bodied pau
pers on the government, is,the oc'
casion Of the violent and abusive
opposition of Tuttle, Foraker and
Fairchild, then every sensible mar
in the country must, and will, com
mend the action Of the President
and the trio of cheap politicians
and all like them will be accounted
fools and knaves.
If the foregoing is not the rea
reason for the vituperative violence
of these men, and we suspect it II
not, then their opposition must bt
found IN the fact of his Democracy
We know there are q few sofi
headed fools who either believe, OF
pretend to believe, that the wal
was fought by Republicans, but ir
this too they are willfully blind tt
the real facts.
| All the way during the war the
Union army contained more Dem
Ocrats than Republicans, and thu
party of the President Is entitled II
more than equal hOnOrs in the re
suit of the great struggle. This be
ing the well known and recognized
fact, the position or opposition o.
snch belluine patriots Is of but little
account In shaping the policy o.
this or any other government
Their purposes are dishonest and
their methods are unpatriOtic and
unworthy the regard Of any lover
Of honest government.
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G. III. ". 4 T. CHANGES.